In this course the three poems that I related to the most was the ballad of a chocolate Mabbie by Gwendolyn Brooks , Bonny Barbara Allen by Anonymous , and The Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. One of the main reason's I found these poems the most interesting was because I →
Hamlet is play whereby the king Hamlet of the Elsinore castle of Denmark got dead and his brother Claudius had to inherit his position with immediate effect and got married to his wife.after the up rise of Claudius regime a ghost appear and the prince son to the deceased king →
Shakespeare used the play Pyramus and Thisbe within the play A Midsummer Night's Dream to comment on the position of theater during his time, which was often subject to the will and whim of both church and state, and frequently threatened with censorship. Shakespeare introduces the actors of Pyramus and Thisbe early in A Midsummer →
One of these changes occurs when the plot twist and Macbeth sees his chance to claim the royal throne by killing Duncan because of the witches' predictions, and when they address him as, " Cawdor and king of the Scots". An example of this is when Lady Macbeth challenges Macbeth to commit to the plan →
As is revealed in the first act, Lear is drastically unrealistic about what is to happen to him during and after relinquishing the throne, and as the result of this great misunderstanding he banishes his loving daughter, Cordelia, leaving only his unloving, and eventually evil daughters, Goneril and Regan, to care for him. Cordelia's actions →
In the introduction to Hunter's Shakespeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness , the author announces his intention to combat oversimplifications that have arisen over the past few decades with regards to the scholarship of Shakespeare, wherein the attitude of Shakespeare itself at the time of his writing would actually reflect the politics and →
For example, from the start Ophelia told her father that she is fond of Hamlet: " My lord, he hath importuned me with love / In honorable fashion".In relating this to Polonius, she implies that Hamlet is a decent and honorable man, and that she does have feelings for him. Ophelia's lack of independence is →
The owl is often heard in Macbeth and it gives the play a sense of scariness that makes it thrilling to read, it helps the reader be alert to the evil, and the suspense increases with every scary sound. The appearance of the witches, the strange behavior in nature on the night of Duncan's murder, →
Juliet's Character is Dynamic Abstract This is an essay about the play, Romeo and Juliet; the essay will prove using examples from the play that the character of Juliet is a dynamic character. In the play, " Romeo and Juliet," Juliet's Character is Dynamic There is only one other Shakespeare's play, →
Shakespeare's use of a mysterious island with magical powers creates an imaginative story and the spectator has to have faith in the play to make the choice of suspending disbelief, in pursuit of gaining joy as they follow the plot without rational. Although poetic faith is not a necessary component in all works of literature, →
The purpose of this essay is to explain the paradox of this theme and to explore how it is significant within the context of this play. The theme of blindness is perhaps the most important theme of Shakespeare's play since it appears throughout the play, in both the physical and metaphorical sense. Of course, Lear →
The fact that capitalism and colonial conquest were " coeval historical processes that were and are intimately related" feeds the negative notions of selfishness and avarice behind colonialism. In addition to the tumultuous relationship between the colonizer and colonized, The Tempest also shows the opportunities that imperialism brings forth. Regardless of the personality, every character →
Hamlet's antics blur the line between acting and real madness, Ophelia loses her ability to rationalize after losing Hamlet then her father, Laertes loses self control and resolve after learning of his father's murder and sister's suicide. The contributing factors to his mental deterioration and antic ruse are, the loss of his father, his depression, →
Her brother, Laertes, returns and hears that Hamlet is the cause of all this death; he plans to get revenge on Hamlet. Claudius uses Laertes to kill Hamlet in a fencing battle; he poisons the sword that will strike Hamlet and the glass of wine that was given to him.
For instance, in the Hamlet article, he is trying to show how the human mind can work in complex workings.In this book, he is trying to express the work of the mind through the struggles of Hamlet. In this case, the author is bringing up the character of vengeance by human →
In a Midsummer Night's Dream, love is off and on going between most of the characters which shows that love was difficult and not too strong between the characters, while in the play Shakespeare in Love, the love between Shakespeare and Viola seems to be pure and full of passion. This kind of love is →
The consequences of these actions both lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Hatred is a main factor between the Montagues and the Capulets. His hatred for himself was not a main effect, but his actions led to disorder. The consequences of hatred obviously led to death, especially those of Romeo and →
Both voice their complaints against these institutions as well as conform to the standards set by them, but in the end are eventually silenced by the institutions, relating the idea that conformity to these institutions is not a choice, but a way of life or death for these women. However, it is Desdemona's situation with →
England's greatest poet and playwright was born in Stratford, the son of a tradesman and Alderman of Stratford, John Shakespeare in 1564. He used some of these books as sources for his plays. One of his most prominent sources of literature was the book The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre families of →
Forbidden love is a theme that exists within Romeo and Juliet, The Titanic, and the song " Love Story." Works Cited Andrews, John F." Falling in Love: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet". Farrel, Kirby." Love, Death and Patriarchy in Romeo and Juliet." Shakespeare's Personality.Ed.
Hitler's intense desire to have the Aryan race to be superior resulted to the collapse of Germany and his end. On the other hand, Faustus died because of his ambition and extreme craving to put him in the highest position in the society, find an answer to the impossible and discover a treatment for death.
Everyone who's read the story of Macbeth knows exactly what happens; a good man is corrupted by the lust of power, armed with the knowledge of the future and urged by the whispers of his wife into rushing headlong into the unknown and ends up fulfilling all of his dreams, never realizing that nightmares are →
Examples include Malvolio's love for Olivia, the love triangle between Olivia, Duke Orsino, and Viola as Cesario, and Antonio's crush on Sebastian. But because of his pompous attitude Olivia is definitely not in love with him, and the rest of the house finds him quite annoying.
In my opinion, Shakespeare uses the theme of hatred, continuously and especially here because it shows that Prospero uses hatred to mistreat Caliban and to show a comparison in the treatment between Ariel and Caliban. This speech, delivered by Caliban to Prospero and Miranda, makes clear in a very brief form the vexed relationship between →
Consider the relationship between homosocial and homoerotic in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and A Twelfth Night." To talk of an Individual in this period as being or not being a ' homosexual' is an anachronism and ruinously misleading" Before a solid argument can commence the reader has to first distinguish →
Although the prologue by the chorus tells the stories conclusion, six distinctive characteristics of a tragic hero is exemplified through the novel that a reader should look for while attempting to identify the tragic hero noble stature, tragic flaw, free choice, the punishment exceeds the crime, increased awareness, and produces catharsis. Although Romeo, the tragic →
51 Lady Macbeth seized the opportunity of her husband becoming king and she queen so she puts he evil thoughts in motion. - She does not think that her husband possesses the courage to kill Duncan so she calls on the gods to make her into an evil being ("" Make thick my blood; stop up →
This means she has to do everything for the sake of her father and her father is the ultimate power over her. One of the themes of the play is male dominance and the objectifying of women.
Therefore, Claudius portrays the state of the nation as a diseased body, one that is on the verge of corruption and deceit brought onto it by its leaders. Special Vocabulary This theme is reinstated several times in the play through the use of vocabulary that focuses of diseases and illnesses which are symbolic because →
King Lear's third and final mistake is giving his entire kingdom to Goneril and Regan. He speaks his mind and says that Lear's own actions lead him to the state he is in.
The following analysis will discuss the ways in which these plays, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure engage, both directly and indirectly, with ideas about and the concept of legitimacy. Looking at their identities, character, and relationships, this assessment will attempt to explore what effects notions of legitimacy or →
Then, after killing hamlets father, Claudius goes ahead to inherit the throne of the father and as if that is not enough, he also marries Gertrude, the widow of king hamlet and the mother of hamlet. Key character of this play is hamlet who is the son of the former king and also the nephew →
In ' Sonnet 1' and ' Sonnet 3' it is clear that the speaker is attempting to get the point across that reproduction is life's only purpose. No longer is reproduction the main point, but it changes to death and its inevitability. Throughout the Sonnets, nature is used as a comparison to →
To end the first quatrain, he explains that the waves of the ocean will always continue to crash in the same way that troubling events in one's life will continue to occur, the movement of the waves or actions of the human do not change as time passes. Shakespeare is comparing the passing of time →
By having the play move between these two settings, Shakespeare is showing that one needs to balance law and order with dreams and love he says that when there is only law, or when there are only dreams, nothing works out well; it is only when the two are combined that things work out. In →
According to Ecology and Environment by European Drama by Downing Cless, Titanias speech provokes associations of severe weather induced by climate change, massive species, extinction and ecological devestation such as rainforest destruction. These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By →
The objective here is to interpret a significant passage from The Tempest and discuss reference to today's society. The Meaning At the Fourth act of The Tempest, Prospero spoke of the said lines after recalling of the threats about his life. The sadness in the tone can be related to the character's forgetfulness within →
The following document reviews the history of western theatre and the impression it left on people including acting as a career and survey of the famous theater actors. Acting: An overview The account of theater performance in the type of enacted rituals is almost certainly as old as the most primitive humans on earth. →
Though the audience is horrified by the actions of Medea and Jason, the idea of violence as a result of a love triangle gone wrong could just as easily be ripped from the headlines of today. Medea is used as a representation of Jason's downfall, and so stands as an object lesson for the men →
Another example of Gloucester's ignorant foolishness is the misfortune he predicts at the beginning of the play. In King Lear, the play seems to revolve around the wisdom of the Fool.
To be a Man in Shakespeare's Macbeth In William Shakespeare's Macbeth the definition of what it is to be a man is seen differently by several characters. The view of what it means to be a man, that contradicts this view, is that a man must only go so far in trying to get →
Reinhardt's representation of Hippolyta is aligned against the tone of the opening scene and the play in general. Her characterisation in the opening scene is a representation of dissatisfaction with the dominant justice of the play.
Shakespeare believed that life was a combination of fate and freewill, he presents this idea to the audience through different events that occur throughout the play, events such as the Feast at the Lupercal, the Soothsayers prophecy, the animal sacrifice, Calpurnias dream and the presence of animals and Caesars ghost. This event is a contrast →
In the beginning of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Egeus is forcing Hermia to marry Demetrius. Egeus is obviously forcing and imposing his initial ideas even though Hermia clearly does not want to marry Demetrius and would rather become a nun or die. This concept is seen again in a different light with Helena and →
His love for and extreme compassion towards Miranda are contrasted really highly versus his hatred of Antonio and his maltreatment of Ariel and subsequently Caliban. Prospero undoubtedly manages the dramatic action of the play but his motives are oftentimes uncertain. Shakespeare instantly establishes a possible, understandable reason for Prosperos retribution: to promote his daughter to →
Equally important are the differences in the character and personality of Julius Caesar himself. Plutarch describes Caesar as ambitious and self-centered, whereas Shakespeare makes Caesar out to be a national hero, all about the people, and not zealous at all. In Plutarch's version of Caesar's life it is made clear that Caesar had →
The two female roles in the play are Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and Ophelia, Hamlet's love and daughter of Polonius. In William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark the women are manipulated by the men, which causes Gertrude and Ophelia to die tragically.
The character of Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name is one of the more complex and interesting characters in the western canon in attempting to take revenge on his uncle Claudius for his alleged murder of Hamlet's father, the young prince feigns insanity in order to get the man's guard down →
Once Laertes learns that it was Hamlet who was responsible for his father's death he was in a blind rage, and he decides to kill Hamlet to get revenge for his father. As part of his plan for revenge, he challenges Hamlet to a duel to atone for the death of his father and sister.
He says " Shakespeare's plays all reward retribution, and punishment take place on earth and within the sphere of mortal life." Macbeth is punished by his soul, not punished physically Macbeth is about a man who violates the moral order and is punished for it. Pack compares the story to Dante's " Inferno" by saying, →
Both characters seem to be that of a noble and honest type throughout the beginning of the book, and then at the chance of further power and wealth, they are lowered to an evil and greed ridden stature. He then realizes that it is his good friend Stephano although when Stephano first hears the voice →
In my opinion theses three themes which are focused on through different interpretations of the play, are the most significant in King Lear In the 1974 Edwin Sherin production of King Lear, we see his directorial decisions on costume choice reflect the nature of the play, as well as the things that have taken place. →
Furthermore, the time when the play was written coincides with the important period in the history of America. According to Takaki, the time he considers in the essay as the reference to Indian expansion was as follows, " it came after the English invasion if Ireland but before the colonization on New England, after John →
Self-doubting and guilt-ridden about his failure to act on his vow of revenge, Hamlet seizes on the opportunity presented by the visit of a band of traveling players and has them reenact the death of the old king in front of the new. Hamlet seeks to avenge the murder of his father, King Hamlet, by →
The foremost qualities that Hamlet seeks and finds in the person of Horatio are his clear and independent judgment, his loyalty to the interests and well-being of Hamlet, and, as Hamlet's death draws near, his role as the reliable transmitter of Hamlet's story and legacy. Indeed, Horatio's confirmation of Hamlet's suspicion is integral for Shakespeare →
The spirit of his father appears to him in a dream and informs him on the causes of his death. He stages a play and in the play, the king is murdered by poisoning him in the ear.
Candide is Voltaire's attack on the philosophy of such Enlightenment thinkers as as Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, who believed that the present world was the best of all possible worlds, and that all things turn out for the best. In both works, the purpose of violence is to demonstrate masculine prowess, but while in →
This theme mainly involves two characters of the play, Antonio and Shylock. The character of Shylock seems to be the villain because he wants the pound of flesh of Antonio's, who seems to be a good Christian. It is understandable then that Shylock seeks revenge when he wants the pound of Antonio's flesh, even →
In the story, Romeo and Juliet, the final tragic outcome, namely the deaths of the two young lovers, was a result of human choices, rather than one of fate. Although one may argue that it was fate that brought Romeo and Juliet together, in actuality, it was Romeo's conscious decision to go to →
Hamlet, in the height of his depression and obsession with death, is greatly affected by the image of the skull and the symbols it represents. The discovery of the skull also brings realization to everyone's eventual disintegration, and the fact that everyone in society, no matter how rich or poor, is brought down to the →
Imagine switching the television on to hear a commentator calling a game of football: " Marry, In the very alarm he doth leap and Like the eagle he soars to grab the flying pig- skin. Your Job Is to write a two-minute scene in Modern English and then a Shakespearean translation of the same scene.
The use of the extended metaphor effectively depicts to the reader Romeo feelings are not exaggerated and Juliet is the love of his life. Throughout the play ' Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare has used effective literary techniques and character development to portray the variations and extremes of love to the reader.
He does not take no for an answer and readily reverts to silencing his subjects, as well as strong words in order to establish himself as the one and only ruler. The first of a large sequence of noises the readers experience is the initial storm, which as it is later revealed is not a →
Macbeth As A Tragedy One of the most prominent themes in the story of Macbeth is ambition. Macbeth is very dark and dreary, the darkness of the play invokes a negative vibe.
Shakespeare presents love as foolish in ' Twelfth Night' by using the inadequacy of characters affected by love as a catalyst for the ludicrousity of events which occur. The confusion of love is shown by Shakespeare in the fast paced love plots and triangles in the play, characters such as Viola are used to demonstrate →
He is brave and well loved and trusted by the King, who calls him " worthy gentleman, valiant cousin!" He is also a good husband, the first thing he does when he gets the chance, is write to his wife and share the news of the witches prophesy. Throughout the play, despite →
Complexity of the Human Mind Elliot's Brilliance of the Rigid Kind and Complexity of the Human Mind The key to T.S. In fact, the sharp criticism of Hamlet does not stop with the play itself but rather extends to some of the well-known critics, such as Coleridge and Goethe, who found " →
Hamlet feel disgusted and betrayed by his mother, since he loved his father and he did not imagine that his mother would pass the throne to his uncle, who takes over as a king. The two stories are based on the young men who show their love of their parents in different ways. In " →
He is not a student anymore; he ought to be the King and he is mourning for his beloved father. The soliloquy starting with " to be or not to be?" (Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene I, 58) is very important to the course of the play and to the philosophical development of the character itself. →
Shakespeare uses Puck as the intermediary in the play, connecting the play and the audience, the fairy world and the human world. Puck is also the only character in A Midsummer Night's Dream who addresses the audience directly, thus raising important questions about the play concerning love, fairies, the lovers' images of themselves, and whether →
Compare/Contrast Shakespeare and Marlowe Essay Sample Compare/Contrast Shakespeare and Marlowe William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe were both writers of the Elizabethan stage, living in the same town of London, at the same time, and they wrote plays while working with the same people. Shakespeare was far superior to Marlowe in →
Perhaps the most notable and infamous words mouthed in Shakespeare's tragedy happened during Act III Scene I when the main character, Hamlet, spoke about the significance of existence with the words " To be, or not to be?" This is a question people have the benefit to often ponder on. " To be, or not to →
On the other hand he is aware of the fact that beauty is not everlasting and he is bewildered by the idea. He tries to make a comparison between his lover and summer and decides that her beauty is beyond compare.
For many sociologists, the work of writers such as Becker, Lemert and Goffman become the accepted, orthodox perspective on deviance. Nevertheless, In the 1970's it began to provoke strong criticism. Interactionist rallied to the defense of their work and attempted to show that the criticism were unjustified.
Beaudry Summary of the Decision The issue of the case resolved in the Supreme Court is whether the decision of the trial court is reasonable. The Supreme Court held that in order the discretion is properly applied, the " justification offered must be proportionate to the seriousness →
When the trap sprung, the inmate's weight and sheer velocity caused the rope to sever his head, and as Kathleen opened the door to get a glimpse of the hanging, it promptly rolled to kathleen's hiding place. Charles' stay there was a repeat of his stay in the previous homes, and he was placed in →
Secondly, " in a criminal court case, the prosecutor must establish the guilt of the defendant, but in a civil court case, the plaintiff must only establish the liability of the defendant. In the former, the defendant is either guilty or not guilty of a crime, while in the latter, the defendant is either responsible →
They had been under the influence when they committed their crimes, they had stolen to support their habit or had a history of drug or alcohol abuse that led them to commit crimes. In " The Drugs-Crime Connection" John Ball discusses the criminality of heroin addicts." There is a general agreement among criminologists that an →
Although there are many influences that contributes to the Prison Industrial Complex, violenceagainst women, people of color, hatred and fear of immigrants are the secondary influences that primary influences, such as, the War on Drugs, the Stop and Frisk policy, etc. target. Different influences in the Prison Industrial Complex are being used →
The motif of the need of suffering is used throughout the novel to produce the book's theme: great suffering leads to salvation and the expiation of man's sins. The charitable side of him is a sign of self-submissiveness and weakness that displeases him greatly due to his expectations of his own theory.
You can either write to a group of people who have a particular problem that someone in your field of study might be facing, for the purpose of motivating this group of people to overcome this particular problem; or you can write to people who are themselves just entering the field you are studying but →
Despite the fact that Stand Your ground is supposed to be used for self defense, it is often used an escape to commit a criminal offense along the lines of murder. Even in cases where the law makes the most sense to be used, the Stand Your ground motion is sometimes still denied.
We learn the key elements in running a Ponzi scheme. We learn how a Ponzi scheme falls apart.
What is generally considered the first state prison in the United States, and of what did the daily routine of inmates in this prison consist? The first state prison in the United States was actually called a jail the Walnut Street Jail of Philadelphia, which was a holding facility converted into a prison. →
Organized crime promotes the overall performance of the economy in Russia, and it was also a problem during the rise of democratic Russia. The impact of organized crime on Russia's economic reform is significant to both the development and adherence of Russia's previous economy by incorporating elements of transitions such as corruption and revolutions in →
The language he used was designed to incite his followers to violence. Manson's use of an apocalyptic narrative allowed him to convince his followers he was the messenger of God.
These thieves selfishly used their knowledge of technology to take advantage of a system and profit from it at the expense of society and human well-being. The advantage that we have been given is to be used for the benefit of, and not the detriment of others.
Outlaw Motor Cycle Gangs are one of the most high profile exhibitions of organised crime that have encapsulated a threat to the community in all Australian states and Territories as the Motor Cycle gangs participate in increasing various activities ranging from social nuisance in residential communities through to their involvement in →
Once they grow up a little, emotionally that is, many of the former gang members Recognize that it's not a good idea and they try to leave. At that point, some gangs have a " no exit" policy and life gets difficult. It really is unfortunate that so many of them believe →
According to the Committee most of the prisons are overcrowded and majority of persons lodged in prisons consisted of people belonging to the under privileged sections of the society. Thus, it could be summed up in the words of the Committee of 1980-83 that ' the existing prison organization in the country is in disarray' →
In this way, Crime and Punishment becomes one of the first major existential and psychological novels. An interesting characteristic of Crime and Punishment as an ideological novel is that conventional social rationale and morality become inverted for Raskolnikov in that he is able to justify and commit his crime while simultaneously judging and condemning the →
What is the general overall goal of a prison classification system? The overall goal of a prison classification system is to maintain homogeneneity of inmates by risk of violence and escape and therefore places in prisons that are physically designed to meet theses risks. 8. 8% of the prison population is female. 11.
Similarly, it is likely that the majority of those in rehab would be mesomorphs, as they spend a lot of time in confinement 'working-out' in the gyms and facilities their, as there is little else to do. Other flaws, as with many studies about criminology, is that the study does not account for women. This →
After their relationship ended, Bundy dropped out of college and it was at that time that he discovered that his grandparents, whom he believed were his parents, were not his parents after all, and that actually his sister was his mother, a huge psychological blow to Bundy. Even after this devastating news, and to the →
Also, it made me aware of who I should hang out with and the better choices I should make. I also did not like the feeling of being in a back of a cop car and having my mom have to see me like that.
His mother criticized Edmund mentally by having him sleep in the basement because she feared he would harm his sisters. Because of this he hated his mother and he also started to have darted toward all women. Occasionally Edmund would break off the heads and hands of his sister's dolls and play a →